European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes August 1977 Roy Wilkins looters should pay for christmastime1 in in the  throughout the Harlem of Block the South Imd Bast Harlem arc being pictured us the plunderers heaven whore teen grown men old and Youna children All together they yanked and crowbar cd the Metal guards off store smashed shot out locks Rind declared open season on nil Merchan Dise Wilhm if the people win live in us named Diml cart about this then there is no need Tor comment Bui i happened on one of the hottest nights in new by Rob weather history when a Power failure darkened All of he five boroughs of the City of new when it was Here were ugly Statis tics or huge properly losses along with the ruined lives of Niall store owners and a flaunting demonstration of a Lack of moral  this night of resulted in new Yorks having an almost picnic Atmo sphere in the spots where tragedy did not or where people were guarding their Homes and businesses from the most new says time with neighbor Ness and even braver but what much of the was thai Lens of thousands of Blacks and hispanics poured from their Tench ends and Barrios in 16 areas to produce an orgy of loot the cry echoed through the Khel to and christmastime it at the Pontiac showroom in thit 50 Auto Kubilis were in a two Nieh a Ltd debating Over u touch i too and a Wun ran wind Rcd in inking if there were any end assured thai ail end to blk were she lamented 1 cant use a using up Here some did guard their and bus italian youths armed with baseball and Iron pipes mood guard Over a five Block Section of stores Ana a tall jamaican held off he crowd with a Many owners sat up All night on never the an earlier there Corning ii Rosa Bushwick Avenue like teemed lobe True in an attempt to arrive at a cause for the behaviour during the new York City Black Many have cited the High Rale of especially among Black As Well As anon shrift i other matters such us schools and health care president Carter inclines toward this in an interview for radio for the National Black radio he said bid Deuce of citizens who live in a in the Structure of police offi the housing Good jobs and this obviously was not the Case in hew so 1 think this is an additional Indi cation of the need to Channel government funds for Job opportunities in the deteriorating Urban areas that have been neglected too nut All of the new York Cuy raiders were hungry or suffered from Lack of Job pram the none appears to be they got ready to loot in six minutes too it would not be Good 16 offer a Job to any of those pictured if one wants a Job honestly there will be sympathetic echoes to the editorial position of the Amsterdam Harlem Black that every one convicted of tooling july should serve Hla sentence at hard labor who will teach our children Haw not to in future blackouts or and v who oooo William tradition promotes of dead years addressing Stu dents at the University of texan in i sat and listened attentively to the Young professor who was introducing to bad dearly done his Homework More Home it than t myself had done on my buckles grandma the professor told the was a indeed he was the sheriff of Duval John Buckley Wax a Law and order sheriff and on Adamant although he died in such was his attachment to the democrats that he voted for Lyndon Johnson in rumours u the general effect that Luj stole the election in were of course Rife at the and indeed there had been Legal but lbs and in due he was president of the United after which the people stopped sniggering for a Little while about land slide Lyndon who had won the big elec Tion in virtue of an 87 vote when they resumed sniggering it was not to pro test the impurity of texan but rather the impurity of South vietnamese it reminds one of the delegation o american scholars dispatched by lbs to Saigon to report on the election of they came Back and testified to Ore general Hygiene of the but one from left a Little residue of Yankee by saying he had found the election in South Vietnam every Dit scrupulous As elections in there was an eloquent silence in greater Boston when these words were Luis the aging mexican american county announced dial he wished to live on Good terms with his he then gave the details of the dramatic meet ing at which George the undisputed Boss of that part of South called in Salas and quoted Lyndon Johnson As if i can get zoo More Ive got it Parr went onto say in Spanish to we need to win this i want you to add those 200 Salas obligingly did what was especially remarkable about the crucial 200 names was that they were handed in in alphabetical we have been trained to believe that in you lock up a Bunch of monkeys with u Bunch of typewriters for Long they will eventually Type out a perfect edition of the notion that 200 individualistic Toons would present themselves in Alpha helical order 01 the polls including one who had been dead for m years tends to Strain most imaginations but then Tolas excels in most and although the elector was it was eventually lady Bird Johnson no doubt intended to be reassuring in her comment on the matter she was in fact anything but reas site said through a spokesman that she knows no Mare about the details of the ims election other than that charges were made at the carried through several courts and finally to a Justice at the supreme what she succeeded in saying is hat not Only is texan democracy Ameri can democracy is corrupt tight through several courts and finally to b Justice of the supreme perhaps the incident con Begotten into the Nett edition of Victor Vaskys it didst Start with on us other id like to offer a slightly different View of the i Rattler like the idea of buckles voting at every elec never mind the formality at their Chesterton May be defined As an Extension of the tradition Means giving votes to the Roost obscure of All our u is the democracy of the tradition re fuses to submit to the Small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking All democrats object to men being disqualified by the Accident of birth tradition objects to their being Fil qualified by the Accident of i am very proud of my grandfathers sense of civic clearly it runs in the to in Lii in at n  Zawot la own and a a Marta k am Militi i vim it to urm Tor in Unile